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Video: Explanation of Pop-up Labs in the Cloud

Devs, IT Pros, Architects, Marketeers, Salespeople, Business-oriented people – they are all rapidly...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/19/2013

The Rise and Rise of Pop-up Labs in the Cloud

Young children read pop up books; books whose pages pop up in to some form of structure for the...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/18/2013

Video: London Web Summit Hack Day

80 devs got together for a hack day at Modern Jago in Shoreditch, London the day after the London...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/03/2013

Event: "Apps + Cloud" for the device developer who is too busy to learn (UK)

18th March – Reading, UK. You’ve got your beautiful new app ready to run on a tablet, smartphone or...

Author: ...Planky Date: 02/08/2013

Video: TIGA Gaming Conference: Games plus Cloud. Rob Fraser’s talk.

I was at the TIGA gaming conference with Rob Fraser who was a speaker addressing “realising the...

Author: ...Planky Date: 02/01/2013

Video: UK’s Biggest Computer Mag Combines Windows 8 App with Azure.

I’m sure we’ve all seen Computeractive on the shelves of our newsagents. When Microsoft releases a...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/24/2013

Event: Build Open Source Apps on Microsoft’s Cloud

The 4th step in Microsoft UK’s “6 Steps to Azure” programme, concentrating on Open Source software...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/23/2013

UK Windows Azure Dev Camps

Who is this camp for? You’ve probably heard of Windows Azure but not done anything with it. Maybe...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/22/2013

Windows Azure Active Directory Cartoon

I posted this video on to Channel 9 before Christmas but I can see something has gone wrong with the...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/12/2013

A small Windows 8 demo

…watch it all the way through to the end – there’s a smile there. Planky

Author: ...Planky Date: 12/19/2012

Event: Video: Slide Decks: from first 2 days of Six Steps to Azure

Six Steps to Windows Azure launched last week with over 160 attendees over the 2 days at our London...

Author: ...Planky Date: 11/15/2012

Video: Windows 8 London Tube Journey Planner

Another great Windows 8 touch-enabled app on a slate.

Author: ...Planky Date: 10/26/2012

Video: Windows 8 Cocktail Flow

OK, so I don’t usually blog about client software, but hey – it’s Windows 8 launch day today. I...

Author: ...Planky Date: 10/26/2012

Event: Fresh round of Windows Azure Camps announced in the UK

We’ve just announced a fresh round of free one-day hands-on camps in the UK for Windows Azure...

Author: ...Planky Date: 10/17/2012

Event: Tech.Days Online in the UK: 30/31 October ‘12

The IT Pro camps have proved super-popular. One of them filled within 10 minutes of its announcement...

Author: ...Planky Date: 10/11/2012

Event: UK announces Six Steps to Windows Azure starting 8th/9th November. Register Now.

Six Steps to Windows Azure – Starts on 8th and 9th November: Six Steps to Windows Azure programme...

Author: ...Planky Date: 10/09/2012

Event: Don’t forget the free UK Windows Azure Camp for the IT Pro, 27th Sept.

  This camp is aimed at the IT Pro. On it you will build and deploy an entire SharePoint...

Author: ...Planky Date: 09/19/2012

WIndows Azure Camp for the IT Pro - UK

Yes – we’re now looking after the IT Pro with Azure! If you just want to register – go here: If you...

Author: ...Planky Date: 09/12/2012

Free One Day Windows Azure Developer Camp Edinburgh, Thursday 30th August

Don’t forget about the free Azure Developer Camp we have running in Edinburgh next Thursday....

Author: ...Planky Date: 08/24/2012

Event: Free UK Windows Azure Developer Camps

  Just a reminder that the first of the latest round of free UK Windows Azure Developer Camps...

Author: ...Planky Date: 08/06/2012

Video: Another of my “cartoony” videos, this time explaining Windows Azure Virtual Machines.

A description of the new elements in the Virtual Machines features of the Windows Azure June 2012...

Author: ...Planky Date: 07/06/2012

Video: Cloud Services Talk from UK’s Cloud Day: London, 22nd June

Anybody who was there knows the demo in the talk I gave timed out. So I’ve done it again and added...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2012

Video: Complete Overview of the 2012 Azure Release

Includes IaaS Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Web Sites, Cloud Services, Identity, Service Bus,...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2012

The Internet is “everywhere”

My 11 year-old son was watching videos of Minecraft on YouTube the other day when my wife asked him...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/15/2012

How do I sign up to the new Azure features if I already have an Azure subscription?

I can see there’s a bit of commentary along the lines of “how on earth do I actually sign up to...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/08/2012

The difference between Azure VMs and Azure VM Role

All compute resources in Windows Azure run on virtual machines, but not all virtual machines are the...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/08/2012

A summary of the major announcements at the “Meet Windows Azure” conference

Despite its intimate, low-key nature, there were a pretty major collection of Windows Azure messages...

Author: ...Planky Date: 06/07/2012

Video: The most common issues support sees for Windows Azure

Markus McCormick, an escalation engineer working in Microsoft support in the UK talks about the most...

Author: ...Planky Date: 05/25/2012

Article: I’ve built a SaaS solution on Windows Azure: now, how do I know what to charge my customers?

When we move from writing shrink-wrapped software that a customer runs a setup.exe in their own...

Author: ...Planky Date: 05/01/2012

Video: Windows Azure Connect: a real-world solution

K3 Retail are the UK’s biggest Microsoft Dynamics partner. They’ve built a system that allows them...

Author: ...Planky Date: 04/30/2012

Event: Free UK Windows Azure Bootcamp: Online

We’re going to be running an online version of the popular Windows Azure Bootcamp on the 21st May....

Author: ...Planky Date: 04/27/2012

VIDEO: Windows Azure: How Retail Manager Solutions changed their business

Jim Chapman, CEO of Retail Manager Solutions, talks about their move from on-premises software to...

Author: ...Planky Date: 04/24/2012

Video: How one company migrated to Windows Azure

At The Races were running a high-volume website in the UK that was characterized by very peaky...

Author: ...Planky Date: 04/20/2012

Event: UK Windows Azure User Group – Mark Bower, CTO of Cube Social speaks.

The next UK Windows Azure User Group meeting is on the 8th May and will feature Mark Bower, CTO of...

Author: ...Planky Date: 04/11/2012

Event: Red Gate/Cerebrata Cloud Tools’ designer at UK Windows Azure User Group on Tuesday 3rd April

Anybody who has got involved in developing on Windows Azure will almost certainly have used at least...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/30/2012

Video: UK Tech.days online Azure Conference: day 2

Richard Conway and Andy Cross both founders of the UK Windows Azure User Group presented a talk...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/21/2012

Advanced Windows Azure Workshop UK

In today’s TechDays Online Windows Azure conference, Andy Cross and Richard Conway, both founders of...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/21/2012

Running an illegal website? Use the cloud to check it…

John Mannix from Governor Technology talks about https://cookielaw.org, a service that used...

Author: ...Planky Date: 03/12/2012

Video: Phone developers should use the cloud

When you think about the monetization (awful word!) of apps for the phone, you can narrow it down to...

Author: ...Planky Date: 02/22/2012

Windows Azure using CNAME DNS records for multiple sites and SSL

In the past 3 weeks I seem to have had to answer this question more than any other. I’m not sure why...

Author: ...Planky Date: 02/20/2012

Phone developers should use the cloud

When you think about the monetization (awful word!) of apps for the phone, you can narrow it down to...

Author: ...Planky Date: 02/17/2012

Video: Business Agility and Cloud Platforms

How do you explain a cloud platform’s place in business agility to somebody with a technical...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/31/2012

The Cloud Skills Debate

The notion of computing in the cloud naturally attracts the interest of developers but a number of...

Author: ...Planky Date: 01/04/2012

London Windows Azure User Group

The new London Windows Azure User Group got off to a great start on Tuesday evening. I counted,...

Author: ...Planky Date: 12/09/2011

Windows Azure is now ISO 27001 compliant

The data centres have enjoyed this certification for quite a while now, as has Office 365, but...

Author: ...Planky Date: 12/03/2011

Quick Report on last Friday’s Windows Azure Camp in London

The really nice thing about the venue, One Drummond Gate, is the breakfast. Not a huge traditional...

Author: ...Planky Date: 11/29/2011

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